Game Description
Short pitch
A campaign set in the world of
Eldritch Skies, which is a game of Lovecraftian science fiction where the player characters are agents of a UN branch responsible for facing Mythos threats in a near-future where sorcery and aliens are commonly accepted to exist but are still every bit as inexplicable and dangerous. In particular, the player characters will be a team of agents traveling through space, exploring new worlds and dealing with extraterrestrial threats.
Long pitch
Back in the day, if you had a run-in with a nightgaunt or some cranky Hound of Tindalos, you were looking at spending the rest of your life in an insane asylum, because no one wanted to believe you about how the universe really worked. Well, that's all behind us now - this is the modern, enlightened year of 2030, and we've gotten practical about these things. We know that mi-go have visited Earth and that deep ones living in the oceans, and we've managed to co-exist with both so far. We know that it's possible to build machines that lets you travel through the "space between spaces" - or
hyperspace, as we call it these days - along with a lot of other cool effects. And as for psychics, well, everyone's fine with those these days, especially since most of us use psi-links to access the Internet anyway.
Of course, the devil's in the details. The public doesn't need to know exactly how lousy hyperspace is with godlike tentacled abominations that would consider a young species like ours a light snack. They don't need to know just how vast the mi-go empire is, or that mi-go science can do things that should by rights be impossible. They definitely don't need to know about whatever is sleeping beneath the ice on Europa, or what happened the last time we accidentally woke it up. Or about the yithians that could hijack their bodies at any moment. Or about Cthulhu - no, he isn't
literally sleeping at the bottom of the ocean until the stars are right, but he's very real and the hyperspatial prison the elder ones put him in won't hold him forever. And the less questions they ask about why most of the planets we've started exploring have a ton of alien ruins on them but no aliens, and just what that implies for our own long-term chances of survival, the better everyone will sleep at night.
That's where we come in - the Office of Paranormal Security. We keep the really scary, crazy crap in check so that regular people don't have to find out about it. We keep over-ambitious sorcerers and scientists from stirring up things they don't know how to put back down. We go out into the unknown and head off the dangers before they make it to Earth. We've got the tech, we've got the budget, we've got the expertise, and we've got the regular psych exams to make sure nothing's crawled into our brains and turned us into traitors to the human race.
We're the first line of defense. There isn't always a second one. Do you have what it takes to stand with us?
Rules and practicalities
The campaign will use the
Savage Worlds Deluxe Explorer Edition. It will also use the
Eldritch Skies core rulebook, though I've made some changes, mainly to the way that magic works. It will not be necessary to have a copy of
Eldritch Skies to play in the campaign, since the setting is fairly easy to understand, but owning at least some edition of Savage Worlds will probably be necessary.
I will be needing 4-6 players, and places will be given on a first-come-first-served basis. One position might already be filled.
Please read the
Character creation notes thread under
Setting rules before you start making your character. Also feel free to ask me any questions you might have.
Where Giants Once Tread
